SUMMARY

• Business Professional with more than 7 years of experience with strong focus as scrum master and experience in international working environments along with business Analysis, system design and IT service management in Investment and Banking, Commercial Lending, Mortgage, AML,Wealth Management, Retail industry, Portfolio Management Manufacturing, Property and Casualty insurance, Credit Card.
• Solid understanding of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) processes including requirements gathering, analysis and design, development tools and technologies, release and version control, testing.
• Solid Agile experience with SAFe Agile, SCRUM teams and KANBAN teams
• Excellent analytical skills to understand the business process functionality and to translate them to Business Requirement Specification and System Requirement Specifications.
• Successfully managed User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and also performed regression testing.
• Dedicated and Self - motivated, proven leadership capabilities and time management skills. Excellent analytical, problem solving, communication and documentation skills.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Modeling Tools: MS Visio, Mockup Screens, Wireframes

SDLC Methodologies: Waterfall, Agile-Scrum, Waterfall-Scrum,, KANBAN, SAFe

Requirement Management: MS Office, JIRA, Confluence, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Rally

Business Skills: Change Management, Impact Analysis, JAD Sessions, SWOT analysis, Project Planning, Project Scheduling, and Project Budgeting, Dependency Management, Resource Management, GAP Analysis, “AS-IS” “TO-BE” processes

Project Management Tools: MS Project, JIRA Portfolio.

Financial tools: MS Excel functions and pivot tables, Financial Statement Analysis

Databases: MySQL

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential - Denver, CO

Business System Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Synthesized current business intelligence or trend data to support recommendations for action.
• Identified and analyzed user requirements, procedures and processes to develop optimization strategies.
• Collaborated with stakeholders to define features, integrations and partnerships.
• Generated standard or custom reports summarizing business, financial or economic data.
• Provided technical support for existing reports, dashboards or other tools.
• Identified needs of customers promptly and efficiently.
• Identified or monitored current and potential customers using business intelligence tools.

Confidential - St Petersburg, FL

Business Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Surfaced insights and findings to support business and technical decisions.
• Identified and analyzed industry or geographic trends with business strategy implications.
• Analyzed operational data, surfacing insights and findings to support business and technical decisions.
• Managed projects and served as primary liaison between client and multiple internal groups to clarify goals and meet standards and deadlines.
• Collected business intelligence data from industry reports, public information or purchased sources.
• Managed diverse projects for data capture, storage and forecast analysis.

ENVIRONMENT: TFS, MySQL, MS Office, SharePoint (2010), MS Project, MS Visio

Confidential, Des Moines, IA

Scrum Master

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Involved in the complete project life cycle of software implementations.
• Managed project delivery metrics (scope, budget and schedule) for a large portfolio following agile methodologies.
• Manages product roadmap with monthly releases
• Led and facilitated the PI Planning, Sprint planning meetings, Review meetings, Retrospectives, Resolved Impediments and the daily standup and helped the team maintain their Burn down chart.
• Helped coordinate effective recurring status meetings with the product, portfolio managers
• Educate and reinforce Scrum methodology and Scaled Agile framework to team members and stakeholders.
• Adopting a very proactive approach in identifying project risks, categorizing them based on impact level and working on coming up with appropriate mitigation strategies to avoid the risk or to plan for reducing the impact of the risk on project key factors.
• Well versed with creating and managing detailed project plans with detailed tasks, activities, milestones, baseline, critical path and by identifying any dependencies and clearly highlighting them on the project plan.
• Coordinate with Business, Client’s technical lead and Offshore team to ensure quality and on time delivery
• Prepare test plans, Review test matrix, scenarios, and test results
• Resolve technical and functional issues of team members and issues/defects raised during UAT.
• Provide Leadership and mentoring to my team and other teams in crisis

Confidential, MI

Business Systems Analyst

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• prioritized requirements by conducting brainstorming sessions with the stakeholders and SMEs.
• Studied and analyzed requirements to be achieved and brainstormed to gather effective requirements for a quality product.
• Acted as liaison between the business and the development team .
• Customized SCRUM framework and executed it all through the project lifecycle.
• Requirement Gathering from clients/user groups and analyzed workflows.
• Collected, documented, and managed business requirements using Confluence.
• Conducted Gap Analysis to derive requirements for existing systems enhancements.
• Created business rules, business vision document, business glossary and implementation up to functional and technical specifications.

ENVIRONMENT: Agile -Scrum, JIRA, MySQL, Informatica, MS Office, SharePoint (2010), MS Project, MS Visio